4. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
5. Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6. But this I say by way of concession, not of command.
7. Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.
8. But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.
9. But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
10. But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband